I was kind of a wild child. I wasn’t taught the niceties of life.
BARBRA STREISANDIf I hear a record once, I usually never listen to it again. I rarely listen to music – unless it’s Billie Holiday.
More Barbra Streisand Quotes
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When I was a teenager in New York, I was buying antique clothes. I still am.
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I never sing in the shower either.
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I think of myself as a girl from Brooklyn.
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I must have got my detailed, obsessive streak from my father, who was an English teacher, because my mother wasn’t like me at all.
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A human being is only interesting if he’s in contact with himself.
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Why is it people who want the truth never believe it when they hear it?
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What does it mean when people applaud? Should I give ’em money? Say thank you? Lift my dress? The lack of applause – that I can respond to.
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What is exciting is not for one person to be stronger than the other… but for two people to have met their match and yet they are equally as stubborn, as obstinate, as passionate, as crazy as the other.
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I got sent to a health camp when I was about 6 years old, and we all had to wear the same starchy blue uniform. The lady who took care of me after school knit me a burgundy sweater. It was the only thing that gave me any individuality.
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I can’t stand to see red in my profit-or-loss column. I’m Taurus the bull, so I react to red. If I see it, I sell my stocks quickly.
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Issues of foreign policy have a place in every election for President.
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I need instant gratification.
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It always gave me the creeps when I saw performers who desperately wanted the audience to like them. That’s not what I’m about.
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I’d rather not talk about money. It’s kind of gross.
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In the music business, we all do different things, but we sit there and admire other people who can write a song differently or sing differently. It’s not so competitive.
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